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Laura's Listby  Anthony Truscello
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A sexually repressed widow creates a secret bucket list of forbidden fantasies, only to begin checking them off with a man younger than her own children. (A vertical short consisting of eight 3-minute episodes)

Genre: Romance
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Boxby  William Walkerley
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Tien shows up a Darius' apartment with a small mysterious black box that will change their lives before the night is over.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Arroz Y Habichuelas (Rice & Beans)by  Iris Mangual
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Two families that could put the Hatfields and McCoys to shame. A Dominican family and Puerto Rican family are forced to share a wedding weekend; old grudges and new chaos threaten to ruin the nuptials unless love and a little salsa can bridge the Caribbean divide.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Elvis Hasn't Left the Buildingby  Elliot Stanton
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The excitement and anticipation of getting a brief glimpse of the King of Rock' n' Roll is seemingly dashed. However, as one door shuts, the stage door opens and reveals the man himself, resplendent in a powder blue sequined jumpsuit - Elvis Presley.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Zaryaby  Jason K. Allen
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Two fishermen visit a secluded lake where they hope to catch the big one. Instead, they encounter a mysterious lake creature known as Zarya. (1 location, 3 actors. Top 20 Horror Short on Coverfly's The Red List. Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival & Nashville Film Festival screenwriting competitions.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Flossy Forwardby  Apostolos P. Kouroumalis
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If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Take My Handby  Jay Hodgkins
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A serial killer seeks a cure for loneliness when he develops a special relationship with the severed hand of one of his victims, only to discover it points him in the direction of true love.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rewardby  Wayne E. Johnson
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A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Approvalby  Doug J Robbins
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A reporter meets with the controlling perfectionist mayor of a small town and learns the secret as to how the mayor keeps his citizens in line.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sammiby  Adam Rocke
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A "dirty laundry specialist" can be a great asset at a lawsuit settlement conference.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Have a Hella Christmasby  Lawrence Riggins
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Lucifer crashes the announcer's booth at a Christmas Parade insisting that HIS float from the Netherworld partake in the festivities -- and win a trophy, or else...! Irreverent, wacky, obscene. Three performers.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Belowby  Dewayne C Bricker
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A marine biologist battles to survive when her dive partner mutates after a deep-sea octopus biterevealing an alien species preparing to rise from the oceans and reclaim Earth.

Genre: Sci-Fi
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Preciousby  Heidi Ferguson
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After a cruel diner waitress humiliates a mysterious customer, she wakes with a distorted permanent smile forced onto her face and discovers the lesson was never about smiling, but about what happens when revenge gets to smile back.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby  NG
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Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Paradise Partyby  Steven Burton
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With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before he dies which propels his spirit forward.

Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Still Waterby  John Waring
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A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
White Feathers - A Supernatural Dramaby  Susie Schecter
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Months after her four-year-old daughter dies tragically, a grieving mother believes a miracle has occurred when the child returns from the dead unchanged. But when only she and the family dog can see her, the mother's determination to prove her daughter's existence drives a wedge into her marriage and sends her on a heartbreaking search for the truth.

Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
And There's Nothing You Can Do About Itby  Deanne Gittens
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A grifter with chameleon-like qualities raises suspicion of her real intentions for a few gossipy church members but it might be too late to catch her at her game before she's moved on again, and morphing into someone else.

Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby  D J Robbins
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A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Midnightby  DJ Robbins
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At Midnight, June meets the terrifying, murderous entity known as the Midnight Woman.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lady In The Wallby  Renata Vaughn
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After the devastating loss of her infant, a grieving woman battling undiagnosed postpartum depression spirals into a psychological nightmare as her husband's infidelity blurs the line between reality, paranoia, and a dangerous search for the truth.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Steven Seagal: Psychic Warriorby  Adam Rocke
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The aging and highly controversial action star pitches his psychic assassination services to the CIA.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Spunk!by  Harker Jones
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Amid a rash of kidnappings, two gay college students embark on a romance via a hook-up app called Spunk!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Violent Natureby  Federica Lonardoni
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After his father's death, Jack finds himself into the woods forced to face the ghosts of his past and his relationship with his dad in order to understand his real nature and embrace his authentic self.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wasabiby  John McCarney
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A night out for an affluent millennial couple unravels after a clash over whether to help a homeless man.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Pilgrim's Hopeby  Kelvin Njogu Ngugi
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A young man of faith , bullied at school and abused at home, must choose between breaking under the weight of persecutionor and becoming a light to the very people who hate him.

Genre: Other
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangling Caratby  Deanne Gittens
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A young woman tries to navigate life and love and avoid being sucked back into a toxic relationship, but there are certain temptations she finds irresistible.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Partnersby  Nicholas Joseph
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Years after their partnership ended in betrayal, a detective interrogates his former best friend, now a murder suspect, only to uncover a dark, twisted truth rooted in a forbidden love that shattered their lives.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Father of Thingsby  Chris Fell
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In this award-winning war drama, two enemy soldiers try to brutally kill each other on the battlefield. However, when both become incapacitated, they cooperate to survive. Their dialogue between camaraderie and cynicism highlights the absurd "logic" of war and propaganda, while offering a glimmer of hope to reconcile differences. Just a glimmer.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jacinta Lodgeby  Nik Forster
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A bitter nurse. A bad mussel. And a band of elderly conspirators who just want peace and pudding. But when their poison plot backfires, it's every pensioner for themselves in this seafood-flavored farce

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Gift Challengeby  Leandrew Baillum
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A global social-networking game becomes a worldwide phenomenon, offering players million, dollar prizes and televised luxury gift draws, only to evolve into a powerful cultural movement uniting communities in a stand against gun violence.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Invadedby  Dexter Williams
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A young lady visits an eccentric New Age hypnotherapist in order to get to the root of her recurring nightmares of being abducted by aliens.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Time Marches Onby  Elliot Stanton
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Time is relative and can be used in positive or negative ways. However, the time spent learning a vital life lesson is time well spent. Some valuable advice offered by an older woman to a young female protester in the back of a police van provokes the younger woman to re-evaluate her life.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
East Main Killerby  Doug J Robbins
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A serial rapist/ serial killer known as the East Main Killer kidnaps a waitress and the teenage daughter of Officer Chase Lincoln, which does not end well for the East Main Killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Zombieby  Doug J Robbins
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A woman is tormented by a zombie that suddenly appears at her Kitchen door.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of 1984by  Vladimir Vassilenko
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On New Year's Eve in an industrial Siberian city, two couples celebrate 1984 in a cramped dormitory; a year later an Orwellian surveillance state and the draft shatter their bonds and remake their lives.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Lion in the Carpetby  Pelham Mead III
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Billy Alton is an 8-year-old boy in 1950 who is stricken with polio. He is put in leg braces and kept at home. Billy begins to see imaginary animals appear in his bathroom, a Lion, a Beaver, an Eagle, and a Wolf who take Billy on journeys to teach him to prepare for the future.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Macyby  Larry E. Coleman
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A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Glass Signalby  Gladman
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After witnessing her own future emergency call, a woman realizes the horrific car crash she described hasn't happened yetforcing her to decide whether the warning she just heard from herself can be trusted.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vampireby  Doug J Robbins
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A man sees an ultra-realistic vampire in a display window, and the diner owner next door swears the thing is alive. But that can't be true, can it?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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